The Great Food Truck Race Finale: Outtakes From The Cutting Room Floor

Food Network's The Great Food Truck Race Season Two finale aired last night, pitting Hodge Podge Truck against The Lime Truck for a briefcase full of cash ($100,000 to be exact) and bragging rights as the greatest food truck.

Though the trucks were filmed during a daring four-day stint in Miami, the footage was whittled down to one hour, including commercials. The show was also heavily edited, so that some scenes were out of sequence. Here are the four best scenes left on the cutting room floor:

Laine Doss

Laine Doss

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4. Little Havana Police Drama

On the Saturday evening of filming, show producers gave each truck a roadblock to

Little Havana. Both trucks headed over to Versailles Restaurant where

some of the funniest footage was filmed, starring one star-struck Miami

police officer.

Hodge Podge truck was parked in a taxi zone and

two police officers came over to have Chris Hodgson move his truck.

After some negotiation (and the offer of being on television), the

police officer not only consented to have his likeness used on tape (we

saw him sign a release form), but he did an additional "take" for the

camera, telling the Hodge Podge team they had to move their truck.

The

police officer then not only got into his car and directed the food

truck to park at a legal location a few blocks down, but he radioed in

Laine Doss is the food and spirits editor for Miami New Times, covering the restaurant and bar scene in South Florida. She has been featured on Cooking Channel’s Eat Street and Food Network’s Great Food Truck Race. Doss won an Alternative Weekly award for her feature on what it’s like to wait tables. In a previous life, she appeared off-Broadway and shook many a cocktail as a bartender at venues in South Florida and New York City. When she’s not writing, you can find Doss running some marathon then celebrating at the nearest watering hole.